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  • Urban Legend? Beethoven music to shoosh away teens

    From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 21 16:16:16 2023
    More of the journalism about classical music scaring away
    undesirables, usually without any notion of what is
    actually played as if all classical music is the same.
    This one from BBC Magazine at least narrows it down to
    Beethoven, but still doesn't say what is being played,
    just a distant speculation from the journalist:

    Largo Louts

    Beethoven has been called into action to
    quell an outbreak of unruly behaviour in
    north Wales. With groups of teens regularly
    going on the rampage in Wrexham city
    centre, staff at the local branch of McDonalds
    have taken to playing the German's music
    from 5pm every evening in the hope that
    they might disperse -- nothing, it seems,
    deters a hoon quite like as well as a feisty Allegro
    con brio in C Minor.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Dan Koren@21:1/5 to Pluted Pup on Fri Apr 21 18:05:09 2023
    On Friday, April 21, 2023 at 4:16:30 PM UTC-7, Pluted Pup wrote:
    More of the journalism about classical music scaring away
    undesirables, usually without any notion of what is
    actually played as if all classical music is the same.
    This one from BBC Magazine at least narrows it down to
    Beethoven, but still doesn't say what is being played,
    just a distant speculation from the journalist:

    Largo Louts

    Beethoven has been called into action to
    quell an outbreak of unruly behaviour in
    north Wales. With groups of teens regularly
    going on the rampage in Wrexham city
    centre, staff at the local branch of McDonalds
    have taken to playing the German's music
    from 5pm every evening in the hope that
    they might disperse -- nothing, it seems,
    deters a hoon quite like as well as a feisty Allegro
    con brio in C Minor.

    Catnip is far more effective and cheaper.

    dk

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Dan Koren@21:1/5 to Pluted Pup on Fri Apr 21 18:06:33 2023
    On Friday, April 21, 2023 at 4:16:30 PM UTC-7, Pluted Pup wrote:
    More of the journalism about classical music scaring away
    undesirables, usually without any notion of what is
    actually played as if all classical music is the same.
    This one from BBC Magazine at least narrows it down to
    Beethoven, but still doesn't say what is being played,
    just a distant speculation from the journalist:

    Largo Louts

    Beethoven has been called into action to
    quell an outbreak of unruly behaviour in
    north Wales. With groups of teens regularly
    going on the rampage in Wrexham city
    centre, staff at the local branch of McDonalds
    have taken to playing the German's music
    from 5pm every evening in the hope that
    they might disperse -- nothing, it seems,
    deters a hoon quite like as well as a feisty Allegro
    con brio in C Minor.

    Catnip is cheaper and far more effective.

    Or maybe they should all be pluted.

    dk

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